Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
health mind body
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
age body youth
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
eye body sentinels
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
hands age body
A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
body spirit action
Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
mind body disease
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
eye body highest
The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
men self body
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
age body youth
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
food mind body
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
soul body individual
One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
mind stronger body
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
mind body states
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.
soul ambitious body
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.